From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Sun 16 Mar 2003 - 18:41:13 GMT
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 12:23 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
> If most conflict in the world is an indirect effect of memes,
Too bad it ain't.
> It took at least 60 years for the germ theory of
> disease to be widely accepted, though,
Except that, it shows results almost instantly upon being implemented.
Acceptance and implementation are not the same things. Proof is not
convention, or vice versa. There has been no implementation of memetic
theory that has shown positive results.
'87, eh? These days, that is more than 60 years to science, compared to
Pasteur's generation.
- Wade
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